About $60 million a year in public funds goes towards subsidising operations for a stretch of the MRT Downtown Line connecting Bukit Panjang to the city.
Minister for Transport Khaw Boon Wan has suggested service on the light rail line could be suspended during 'certain off-peak hours' to reduce the stress on it.
A train fault encountered at Fajar LRT station caused services on the Bukit Panjang LRT to be disrupted on Monday evening.
The Bukit Panjang LRT network will close earlier at 11:30pm daily from 13 January to allow engineers to step up maintenance and system renewal works.
The Bukit Panjang LRT was closed on Sundays from 15 April to 1 July, as part of maintenance works aimed at improving the reliability of its system.
Rail operator SMRT has announced that from 1st July, the Bukit Panjang LRT will resume Sunday operations with later opening times.
Passengers on a Bukit Panjang LRT train were stuck in the car for up to half an hour yesterday afternoon and had to walk on the tracks to the nearest station.
Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan has said that the only viable option for the problematic Bukit Panjang LRT is to overhaul it.
The Bukit Panjang LRT network will be closed every Sunday for 11 weeks, starting 15th April, as part of maintenance works to improve the system.
Commuters can expect more reliable rides on the Bukit Panjang LRT from 2022, when the majority of its $344 million overhaul is expected to be completed.
For the second time in a week, service on the Bukit Panjang LRT has been interrupted due to a train fault.
The Bukit Panjang LRT has broken down after a train damaged a signal stop tape, which is used to indicate where the driverless trains should stop.
The underpass to Bukit Panjang MRT will open in Q1, with the 100m linkway ready after delays of more than a year due to construction challenges.
The Bukit Panjang LRT will begin its Sunday service at 7:00am instead of the usual 5:30am for eight weeks starting on 12th November.
Tender for the problematic Bukit Panjang LRT (BPLRT) will be called soon to overhaul and tackle the flawed design behind its reliability woes.
Speaking at an event yesterday, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said that the Bukit Panjang LRT was built as an 'afterthought' to a built-up town.
The Bukit Panjang transport hub, which has a new bus interchange to go with the existing LRT and MRT stations, opened yesterday after a two-year delay.
Originally slated to open together with Downtown Line 2 in December 2015, the third entrance to the station will now be completed only by the end of the year.
In March, Transport Minister Khaw Boon Wan said the MRT system should hit 300,000 train-km between delays of more than five minutes this year.
The signalling fault was caused by a faulty platform door at Botanic Gardens station, The Straits Times has contacted SBS Transit for more information.